Hi,
My project is a Cookies and Potato Chips facility (from a well known brand) I has an offices building, services, laboratories, and Production Lines. It was built and operates since two years ago outside the US. It has great green features. The problem is that no similar facility exists on Portfolio manager to get a performance rating. I requested information to Energy Star and they responded:
"It seems that your facility would be classified as "Other - Other." Please note, if your entire facility is listed as any of the "Other" space types, it is not eligible to receive a national energy performance rating"
¿Does this means that this facility is not certifiable?
I would be really appreciate any answer.
Jose.
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Marcus Sheffer
LEED Fellow7group / Energy Opportunities
LEEDuser Expert
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November 24, 2010 - 3:50 pm
Project types which do not qualify for an Energy Star rating (Case 1) can use Case 2, Option 1 or Option 2 (A, B, or C) as appropriate. The details of these methodologies is found in the EBOM Reference Guide.
Dan Ackerstein
PrincipalAckerstein Sustainability, LLC
LEEDuser Expert
819 thumbs up
November 24, 2010 - 3:57 pm
One thing you'll need to be particularly careful of, Jose, is the possibility of normalizing your energy consumption for variations in production. With a manufacturing facility (or partial manufacturing), changes in output can have significant impacts on energy use - normalizing for those changes is the only way to analyze efficiency. You may also want to look into identifying sources of comparable building data - industry or trade associations are one possibility, or public consumption surveys like those produced by the Energy Information Administration. It's a challenging building type, no question about it, but definitely do-able in EBOM.